PAUL HUBWEBER - 213

• paul hubweber: 213
      (2017, cdr, ger, private release)

"213" sheds a light on the musical world of Paul Hubweber.
Experimental music / improvised jazz.
Housed in a beautiful cardboard booklet, one gets a CD with 18 tracks that feature Paul on trombone, on guitar, or on vocals. And maybe even on loop station(s)?
Beautiful.

As Paul also is the mastermind of The Yellow Snow Crystals, a couple of Zappa references fit this anthology perfectly. Track number 5, 'YSCATS', or 'Yellow Snow Cats' has German lyrics over Zappa's 'Crew Slut', 'Punchin' Pigs' includes various Zappa riffs, and 'So Far' has a link to FZ's 'Sofa'.
Very nice.

This release came in a very limited run of 50 signed and numbered copies.
If you can get hold one, you really should not hesitate.
Recommended listening !!

HARDY FOX

Hardy Fox is the composer for The Residents.
He is no longer using the Charles Bobuck moniker.
So far, starting December 27, he did put up three tracks on Bandcamp :

'Wink', with a nice oriental touch.

'Duet',


'Paying The Sun', a left-over from the "What Was Left Of Grandpa' (2015) album.

CUNEIFORM RECORDS

The Year 2018 will mark a New Era for Cuneiform Records.

Steve Feigenbaum is the brains behind Cuneiform. He is in charge of A&R (curating Artists and Repertoire), in addition to overseeing all business and legal matters, including sales, distribution, manufacture, licensing for media and more. For 2018, Steve will take a year sabbatical to determine what direction the label could or should take to be viable again in the future. Because sales of recorded music in every format - digital, cd, lps - have dramatically declined for everyone in the music industry, it is no longer feasible for us to run a record label in the same manner as we have for the past 35 years. For Cuneiform, 2018 will be a year to rethink, retool and evolve the label.

During his sabbatical, Steve will continue to maintain Cuneiform’s catalogue, oversee digital and physical album sales, pay twice-yearly artist royalties, oversee licensing and other legal matters, and keep Cuneiform Record’s official website updated, including updating the Tour page for concerts. But, while Cuneiform released an average of 15 albums a year for more than three decades, no new releases are currently scheduled. Cuneiform will remain in its current offices in Silver Spring, which it shares with Wayside Music, an internet-based record store that Steve founded in 1980 and continues to run with Simon Mertz and a part-time assistant.

KAPSALON - S/T

• kapsalon: s/t
      (2018, lp, bel, rat records)

Nate Wooley, Jozef Dumoulin, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten and Teun Verbruggen.
Experimental, improvised music.
Recorded live at Jazz Middelheim in 2017.

Released on LP by Rat Records.

VANTOMME - VEGIR

• vantomme: vegir
      (2018, cd, usa, moonjune records)

Dominique Vantomme's latest project, aptly called Vantomme, features Michel Delville on electric guitar and Tony Levin on bass (and chapman stick).

Lovely.
Out on the MoonJune Records label.

ZAPPASTRAAT IN TIILBURG, NL

It's there.
Google it.

Postal code 5012 in Tilburg.
Zappastraat (Zappa street)

Next to the Bernsteinstraat (Bernstein street) and the Ellingtonlaan (Ellington lane).

https://www.google.be/maps/place/Zappastraat,+Tilburg,+Nederland



-- info : Jan van Kemenade

YOWIE - SYNCHROMYSTICISM

• yowie: synchromysticism
      (2017, cd, usa, skin graft records)

Every once in a while, you get to hear a band that blows you away.
Yowie is such a band. They're a trio from St.Louis and they've just released their third album (on the Skin Graft Records label).

Intense.
Experimental
Math rock.
Right up my alley.

"Synchromysticism" presents five tracks. The total album clocks around 33 minutes.
It will have you searching for your breath.

Available from Mandaï.
www.mandai.be

CHEER-ACCIDENT - TRADING BALLOONS

• cheer-accident: trading balloons
      (2017, cd, usa, skin graft records)

Skin Graft (the comic book company that also produces records) has just released a remastered version of "Trading Balloons", the CDR / private release from 1999.
The album presents one song.
One 52-minute composition.

Surprising, varied, bombast but also explosive, the piece does generate both a progressive rock and a contemporary classical feeling.
Fascinating.

Available from Mandaï.
www.mandai.be

ED PALERMO BIG BAND UPDATE

recent messages / setlists by Ed Palermo :

Thx to everybody who came to Falcon last night to help ring in the new year! 2018 is going to be amazing if last night's celebration is any indication.

We did a parody of the Oscars. The set list won't include the "Play off" tunes, but I will briefly describe the final "award" towards the end.

December 31, 2017-Falcon

early show

EDDY ARE YOU KIDDING/GONE WITH THE WIND
PEACHES EN REGALIA (Zappa)
INFLUENZA (Rundgren)
BIG SWIFTY#1 (Zappa)
DOWN, BOY! (Palermo)
BIG SWIFTY#2 (Zappa)
UNCLE BERNIE’S FARM (nap sings last line)

CAN’T AFFORD NO SHOES (Zappa)
BAREFOOTIN’
LET’S MAKE THE WATER TURN BLACK (Zappa)
UNCLE REMUS (Zappa)
MONTANA (Zappa)
EMPEROR OF THE HIGHWAY (Rundgren)

I WOULD DIE FOR YOU/G SPOT TORNADO (Prince/Zappa)

late show

LOVE SHACK INTRO (B52s)
ECHIDNA (Zappa)
“Tin Roof….Rusted”
ECHIDNA coda (Zappa)
MOGGIO/NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN (Zappa/Moody Blues)
LONG DISTANCE RUNAROUND (Yes)

FLORENTINE POGEN (Zappa)
VILLAGE OF THE SUN (Zappa)

The award for best big band was between my band and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Wynton Marsalis. After it was announced that my band won, the band launched into:
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS (Queen)
But Bruce McDaniel stopped the band to tell the audience there was a mistake and that the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra was the actual winner, the band played:
I’M A LOSER (Beatles)

(midnight)
AULD LANG SYNE
WE ARE NOT ALONE (Zappa)
STRICTLY GENTEEL#2 (Zappa)

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Good morning! Thx to everybody who came to my sold out show last night at the Falcon! Super thanks to my incredible band and guest tap dancer Nicki Denner and guest vocalist Nina Hennessey. The Falcon audience is a gift from God to me and my band. Words don't do justice to how great they are.
As always, the set list from last night:
December 23, 2017-Falcon

EARLY SHOW

VIENNESE MUSICAL CLOCK (Kodaly)
NO PLACE LIKE MARLBORO (Sondheim)
WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS TIME (McCartney)
GOD REST YE, MERRY GENTLEMEN (trad)
CHRISTMAS MEDLEY
Be-Bop/Things to Come (Dizzy Gillespie)
Serenade to a Cuckoo (Roland Kirk/Jethro Tull)
My Favorite Things/We Three Kings (trad)
AIREGIN (Sonny Rollins)
WHAT CHILD IS THIS/20 SMALL CIGARS (trad/Zappa)
GRAND CENTRAL (John Coltrane)
BIG SWIFTY#1 (Zappa)
SOFA/AWAY IN A MANGER (Zappa/trad)
BIG SWIFTY#2 (Zappa)

TAKE A PEBBLE (Emerson, Lake and Palmer)
UNCLE BERNIE’S FARM (Zappa)

SHOSTAKOVICH (snippet from his 5th Symphony)
AMERICA/AMERICAN IDIOT (Bernstein, Green Day)
RUSSIAN DANCE from THE NUTCRACKER
G SPOT TORNADO (Zappa)

LATE SHOW

FLUTE MOVEMENT from THE NUTCRACKER
LONG DISTANCE RUNAROUND (Yes)
JOHN BARLEYCORN MUST DIE (Traffic)
50 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER (Paul Simon)
SCARBOROUGH FAIR (Paul Simon)
NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN INTRO (Moody Blues)
INFLUENZA (Todd Rundgren)
LET’S CALL THE WHOLE THING OFF (Cole Porter)
LET’S MAKE THE WATER TURN BLACK (Zappa)
VILLAGE OF THE SUN (Zappa)

TEA FOR TWO #1
ECHIDNA'S ARF (Zappa)
TEA FOR TWO #2

TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE ZMAS-classic Clement Moore poem set to the music of Zappa’s EVIL PRINCE

encore:

SILENT NIGHT/TWIN PEAKS THEME
NUTROCKER (Emerson, Lake and Palmer)

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Okay, as always, I post the set list from the previous night's show:
IRIDUM-SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2017 CHRISTMAS SHOW

EARLY SHOW

THE NUTCRACKER FLUTE MOVEMENT (Tchaikovsky)
WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS TIME (McCartney)
GOD REST YE, MERRY GENTLEMEN (trad)
CHRISTMAS MEDLEY
Be-Bop/Things to Come (Dizzy Gillespie)
Serenade to a Cuckoo (Roland Kirk/Jethro Tull)
My Favorite Things/We Three Kings (trad)
AIREGIN (Sonny Rollins)
WHAT CHILD IS THIS/20 SMALL CIGARS (trad/Zappa)
GRAND CENTRAL (John Coltrane)
BIG SWIFTY#1 (Zappa)
SOFA/AWAY IN A MANGER (Zappa/trad)
BIG SWIFTY#2 (Zappa)
G SPOT TORNADO (Zappa)

TAKE A PEBBLE (Emerson, Lake and Palmer)
UNCLE BERNIE’S FARM including:
1. Stolen Moments (Oliver Nelson)
2. Brown Shoes Don't Make It (Zappa)
3. It's not Unusual (Tom Jones)

LET’S CALL THE WHOLE THING OFF intro (Cole Porter)
LET’S MAKE THE WATER TURN BLACK (Zappa)
VILLAGE OF THE SUN (Zappa)

LONG DISTANCE RUNAROUND (Yes)
JOHN BARLEYCORN MUST DIE (Traffic)
50 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER (Paul Simon)
NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN intro (Moody Blues)
ECHIDNA’S ARF (Zappa)
ALEX TREPAK (Tchaikovsky)

SILENT NIGHT/TWIN PEAKS THEME (trad/Twin Peaks)

encore:

EVIL PRINCE/TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE XMAS (Zappa)
NUTROCKER (Emerson, Lake and Palmer)

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ZAPPACAST EPISODE 35

For Episode 35 of the ZappaCast - The Frank Zappa Podcast, Scott Parker talked to Ahmet Zappa.

They discussed the recent Halloween release, the possible future of the material from the vault, Gail's role, Frog's With Dirty Little Lips, Dweezil and the trust, the upcoming Zappa pin, Ahmet's view on Zappa-related projects, and much more.

You can listen to it here:
http://www.podcastgarden.com/episode/zappacast-episode-35-ladies-and-gentlemen-ahmet-zappa_120398